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To wizard or not to wizard

I'm learning C# by taking course 2555 on Microsoft's e-learning
website. I'm also been reading the press books on this, so I'm by now
means a developer.

My question revolves around using Wizards to generate datasets in VS
2005. For example I want to write a simple application for my own use.
I already have the data populated in a database and I have a data
source setup.

I can use the wizards to generate a master detail data form (I believe
that's what it's called) and I get a form with input controls for each
field in the table. My question is that 2 of the fields in the table
are numeric IDs which are foreign keys to other tables. For example, I
have a customerID and registrationID field. I don't want text box
controls for those fields, but rather a combo box control that
displays the a field in the customer table. I did make this work by
changing the SQL query for the data set to use a join, however the
wizard obviously isn't able to generate the update statements.

I've tried to search google for this, since I do want to RTFM, however
I'm not really sure what to look for. Suggestions on the appropriate
concept that I should search would be greatly appreciated.

This also brings to me to a larger conceptual question. Are the
wizards in visual studio useful in "the real world"? I can see them
being good to generate code for quick and simply applications but I
just can't see them being used to write a large application.

To solve my case, would I simply build the form from scratch? What
would the best way to update the database? Create classes to represent
each table? Stored procedures?

Any guidance is greatly appreciated.

Aaron

Sep 8 '07 #1
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